There is no doubt that the Covid pandemic has pushed business growth in terms of new start-ups. More than 835,000 new businesses were started in 2020, a rise of 41% from 2019, when almost 592,000 new businesses were started. As the pandemic started, 2019 itself saw a staggering increase of 96% of new business start-ups compared to the previous year. London typically saw around a third of all new start-ups.
More than 99% of businesses in the UK are classed as small (fewer than 49 employees) and in fact the majority have only one employee. The most popular type of business is online retail, with the majority of business owners working from home.
It is estimated that around 7.5million workers of all types want to work from home permanently and indeed it has been seen that home workers are more productive than their office-based counterparts. This is contrary to what many business owners thought before Covid hit.
At Carlton DeVere, we have been advising clients who have offices – for a long time before Covid – that remote working is certainly an option but they were worried about lack of oversight and productivity. Covid forced this situation upon them and it has proved that the concept can work well.
There is no doubt that there is a financial incentive for small business owners to work from home. A problem can occur, however, when you start employing staff at your home. This can change the way you are taxed.
The fact remains that many small business owners are losing their livelihoods due to Covid. Many have found that they have to work much harder to secure the same income they had before, leaving little time for administration, marketing, chasing debts and so on.
Government departments such as HM Revenue & Customs and the Courts and Tribunals Service show little sympathy, giving little or no leeway to struggling business owners. This is where a business like Carlton DeVere can step in and help.
Carlton DeVere was set up specifically to help start-ups and small businesses to concentrate on what they do best and farm out their administration. When we talk about administration, it is not just VAT returns, accounts, corporation tax and the like but also those services that businesses need in order to continue running, such as debt collection, marketing, PR, websites, recruitment and so on.
Carlton DeVere is unique in that it offers almost every business support service, selectable through a simple menu of choices on its website.
www.carltondevere.co.uk has a page for packages and options which allows you to tick a box for each service you are interested in and a low, monthly fixed fee is generated.
There are no additional costs whatsoever and your package can be changed at any time.
Carlton DeVere offers its services at far lower rates than accountants, solicitors, advertising and PR agencies and other professionals because they have a team of specialists in each area, together with highly efficient systems.
Carlton DeVere is the only business support service we know of in the UK that has such a breadth of support services at such a low, fixed cost. Its business model is completely transparent, which is why all of their prices are freely shown online for each service offered.